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Editor's Insight: Thomas Friedman has seen the future and it's in Dubai

The globe-trotting American author says everyone will have to “live like a newly-arrived immigrant” to survive in the future.

Tue, 16 May 2017

Few places on earth are as polarising as Dubai – a futuristic city that has arisen from the desert and has spurred a number of imitators.

Dubai has plenty of detractors but one of its admirers is Thomas Friedman, who is in Auckland this week for the Writers Festival.

Friedman is considered

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